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The Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS) is conducted by astronomers from Australia and New Zealand since mid 2008 to search for new supernovae in the southern hemisphere. [2] In 2022 the group won the Astronomical Society of Australia's Page Medal [ 3 ] for having found around 200 confirmed supernovas.
Ground-based observatories, located on the surface of Earth, are used to make observations in the radio and visible light portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Most optical telescopes are housed within a dome or similar structure, to protect the delicate instruments from the elements. Telescope domes have a slit or other opening in the roof ...
1732 – Indian observatories of Sawai Jai Singh at Varanasi, Ujjain, Mathura, Madras. 1733 – Chester Moore Hall invents the achromatic lens refracting telescope. 1734 – Indian observatory of Sawai Jai Singh at Jaipur. 1753 – Real Observatorio de Cádiz (Spain) 1753 – Vilnius Observatory at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Yerkes Observatory (/ ˈ j ɜːr k iː z / YUR-keez) is an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The observatory was operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [2] [3] from its founding in 1897 until 2018. Ownership was transferred to the non-profit Yerkes Future ...
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observatory is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...
Airborne observatory. Radio observatory. Microwave observatory. Ground-based observatory. Solar observatory. Neutrino detector. Cosmic-ray observatory. Educational observatory. This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location.
Reber Radio Telescope. / 38.4301694°N 79.8179028°W / 38.4301694; -79.8179028. The Reber Radio Telescope is a historic radio telescope, located at the Green Bank Observatory near Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. Built in 1937 in Illinois by the astronomer Grote Reber, it was the first purpose-built parabolic radio telescope.
Cincinnati Observatory. The Cincinnati Observatory, known locally as Mt. Lookout Observatory, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States) on top of Mount Lookout. It consists of two observatory buildings housing an 11-inch (28 cm) and 16 inch (41 cm) aperture refracting telescope. It is the oldest professional observatory in the United ...